Phrases of Romeo and Juliet, quotes and aphorisms taken from one of William Shakespeare's most famous works which, composed between 1594 and 1596, represents one of the most popular and appreciated love stories in the world.
Quotes of Romeo and Juliet
- Love is a vaporous mist formed by sighs; if it dissolves, it is fire that sparkles sparkling in the eyes of lovers; has hindered, it is a sea fed by the tears of the lovers themselves. What else is it? A secret madness, gall that strangles and sweetness that heals. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- The sweet milk of adversity, the philosophy. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- You will be tired of love, because you have been walking in my head all day. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- And so with a kiss I die. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- We laugh at the scars of others who never suffered from injury. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- From now on you call me "Love", and I will no longer be Romeo for you, because you will have renamed me so. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- We squander our lights in vain, like daytime lamps. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- When you are no longer part of me, I will cut many small stars from your memory, then the sky will be so beautiful that the whole world will fall in love with the night. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- That love was a delicate thing? I would rather say that it is too rough and too harsh, and finally too violent: and it stings like a thorn. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Love, love madly, love as much as you can and if they tell you that it is a sin, love your sin and you will be innocent. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
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- My poverty allows, not my will. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Goodnight, goodnight! Separating is such a sweet pain, which I will say goodnight until it is morning. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Ah, Juliet, if the measure of your joy is as full as mine, but with more art than I can express it in words, then make the air that surrounds us sweet with your breath and let your tongue, rich in music, reveal what fantastic happiness we receive from each other in this dear meeting. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- He who has never been injured laughs at scars. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- If love is blind, it will never reach its target. Romeo will be seated under a loquat, dreaming that his beauty will give him that fruit which the maidens laugh when they call each other medlar: oh, Romeo, if she were an open medlar and you were her cucumber! (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Who are you who, stepping into the dark of night, stumble over my most secret thoughts? (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
Aphorisms of Romeo and Juliet
- Don't tempt a desperate man. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- See how he puts his cheek on his hand: Oh, I could have been the glove of that hand and thus be able to touch that cheek! (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- For the madonna, sir, a bad cook is the one who can't lick his fingers. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- What's in a name? What we call by the name of rose, even if we call it by another name, would still retain the same sweet scent. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Wisely and slowly; stumble those who run fast. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- If love is blind all the better: it accords with the night. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- The cloak of the night conceals me from their eyes; if you love me, let them find me. Better to lose your life for their hatred than to ward off death in the absence of your love. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Violent joys have violent ends, and die in their triumph, like fire and gunpowder, which are consumed on the first kiss. The most exquisite honey becomes cloying by its own sweetness, and just tasting it to get rid of it. Therefore love moderately: love that lasts does so. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- You're married to calamity. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Yet I want nothing else but what I already have; my heart, like the sea, is without limits; and still like the sea my love is deep: the more I give you, the more I have, since both are infinite. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Violent joys have violent ends, and die in their triumph, like fire and gunpowder, which are destroyed at the first kiss. The most exquisite honey becomes cloying by its own sweetness, and just tasting it to get rid of it. Therefore love moderately: love that lasts does so. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Love runs towards love as schoolchildren run away from books, but love that leaves love is to go to school with a sad face. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Two people can keep a secret if only one person knows it. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- With the wings of love I flew beyond the walls, because there can be no limits to love and what love wants love dares. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Love is the fog that forms with the vapor of sighs. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- The love of young people is not in the heart, but in the eyes. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
Phrases of Romeo and Juliet
- For Love there is no stone obstacle, and what Love can do, Love tries. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Juliet, death has released the honey of your breath but nothing has been able on your beauty. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- A bad cook is the one who can't lick his fingers. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Teach me to forget about thinking. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Separating us is such a sweet pain that I would not tire, my love, of telling you "good night" until day. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Crazy is the man who speaks to the moon. Those who don't listen to it are foolish. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Had my heart ever loved? Eyes deny him, because he has never known beauty until now. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Saying goodbye is such a sweet pain that I would say goodbye until tomorrow. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- There is no world for me beyond the walls of Verona: there is only purgatory, there is torture, the same hell; banished from here, it is as if you were banished from the world; and exile from the world means death. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Call me just love, and I'll be renamed. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- My momentum is infinite like the sea, and my love is no less deep; the more I give you the more I have, because both are infinite. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- When you are no longer part of me, I will cut many small stars from your memory, then the sky will be so beautiful that the whole world will fall in love with the night. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Romeo, Romeo! Why are you Romeo? Ah, deny your father! ... Reject your family! ... Or, if you really don't want to, swear love to me, and I will no longer be a Capulet! (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Goodnight, goodnight! Separating is such a sweet pain, which I will say goodnight until it is morning. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
- Those who are struck by sudden blindness cannot forget the lost treasure of sight without pain. Put before your eyes a beauty as perfect as you want: in my eyes it will be only a sheet on which I will read the name of the one who is even more beautiful. No, cousin, no, you won't be able to teach me not to think about her anymore. (from "William and Juliet" by William Shakespeare)
